Siren Song

As she turned back she saw him blow a kiss to one of her PR ladies and her eyes fill with hearts.

"Troublemaker." Clicking her tongue against her teeth she made a small tsk while waiting for Justin to catch up with her as he made his way through the small building with his collection of hearts.

"Please control yourself with my employees, especially with my secretary Anouk Poitier, she is especially weak for a handsome face like yours. I have enough to deal with my cousin hara.s.sing her consistently and disturbing our work flow."

"Ill try my best momma! I"m only human though." Giving her a cheeky grin Justin responded as she shook her head. "Who is your cousin that keeps bugging you?"

"Remember that nauseating s.h.i.t sack at the party the other night that wouldn"t leave me alone?"

"Do you mean that tall gumby guy?"

"Gumby? " She thought of the animated green clay figure and snorted with a laugh. Shaking her head she opened the solid wooded door only to have her small smile fall immediately into a scowl.

Inside, as if talking about the devil would summon him, stood Robert Dumont. The man was leaning over what looked like her secretary Anouk, pressing the smaller woman onto her desk.

"For all the love of.." Narrowing her eyes as she made a silent growl, Chang took a few steps forward and brought her foot up as hard and quick as she could.

"Ahh." The proud tall man instantly started crumpling to his knees, his hands between his legs to comfort himself. Rober Dumont whipped his head around with a vicious look to see who had grievously injured him.

"You b.i.t.c.h! Don"t you know I can sue you for a.s.sault? How dare you!" After releasing a string of epitaphs in French he began to curse her his blue eyes rimmed in red in anger.

"Oh and who will be your witness? No one in this building, and especially in this room would ever vouch for you. You have nothing only heresay, but please try I will enjoy countersuing you for slander and s.e.xual a.s.sault on my employee. Now get out of my office Robert and never come back, or I"ll do you worse." Folding her arms she stood and leaned against it waiting for him to leave.

Grimacing while gritting his teeth he rose up slowly into a hunch.

"You will pay for this b.i.t.c.h and for canceling my contact."

"T"as pas de couilles.1 Especially not now."

Hearing her cra.s.s statement his face turned redder in anger.

"Bring it cousin, I still owe you anyways, I am not afraid of you and never will be. You have so much more to lose, and you will see what I mean soon enough. This is only the tip of the iceberg." Placing extra sarcasm on his t.i.tle she gave him an evil smile.

"What do you--" Before Robert Dumont could finish his sentence Chang closed the door in his face and locked it.

Stunned Anouk Poitier was still on the desk but had propped herself up with both arms. Her high necked cream colored blouse bore an obvious grip mark near the collar while a few b.u.t.tons at the top were undone. With trembling fingers the younger woman slowly closed up her front.

"T-thank you boss."

Seeing her still shaking with her nerves, Justin gave the small woman a hand as she slipped off the desk and helped to straighten her up as she was still shaken up.

Once she was in order Justin gave her a charming smile to which she blushed and looked away, nervously biting her lip while gripping her skirt.

"What is going on Anouk why were the both of you in this position in my office with the door closed?" Folding her arms over her chest again Chang leveled a serious look at Anouk Poitier.

"Monsieur Dumont came because of the rejection of the renewalment for Bouleau Argenté"s investment into his realty company."

"Oh was he upset about it not being renewed."

"More than that, madame. He was incensed and came looking for you but found only me in the office. So he pinned me and started to question me about it and push me to approve it myself. I refused and I told him you not only had plans to no longer fund it, you would also be canceling the proposed funding for his collaboration with Roche holdings and had taken it upon yourself to deal with them instead."

With an eyebrow raised inquisitively Chang started to tap her foot.

"Now why would you tell him that, it was supposed to be a surprise when the new pharmaceutical research building would be opened without his a.s.sistance. I wanted to see the look on his face when we cut the ribbon."

"He was very.. forceful about it madame Charmaine, and he got so angry it was terrifying." The younger woman put her hands to her face and sniffed a little.

Chang softened the hardened look she was giving the pet.i.te girl with tears in her large brown eyes.

"I understand, there is nothing he can do about it anyways. I just wanted the satisfaction of seeing him realize the rug had been pulled out from under him a long time ago.

"Please pull up any contracts that we have with him or affiliations of his and cut them. If we can reach out to his clients and we will locate another third party to deal with their needs. If they want our funding Robert Dumont must not be in the loop. He will not benefit for a second longer for being in charge of companies that live off us.

"When I let that contract with that blackhole of a realty company go through the first time, I was a fool. It ends now, he has nothing over any of us. It is time to take back the chickens from the fox."

"But he is apart of your family madame Charmaine, what will Monsieur Dumont think?"

"I will explain that myself to my grand-père, you don"t need to worry about that. Just clean yourself up and take a breather, Anouk. I will deal with any aftermath if there is any." Sighing to herself she dismissed the younger woman"s worries knowing she was looking at her with a worried expression.

"Thank you. Um.." Looking down at her toes that peeped out of her shoes first Anouk brought her eyes back up to Chang"s with a sincere look in them. "I apologize for Friday, I hope I didn"t cause you any inconvenience then."

Putting a few fingers to her temple she wondered where to even begin with that. In the end she looked up and dismissed her while stating that it was fine.

Collecting her paperwork from her desk, Chang began to leave.

"If for any reason you need me you may call me on my personal as I will not be in the office for the rest of the day, nor will I be in tomorrow. Please don"t work too hard everyone." Giving them a smile her employees say in their seat flabbergasted.

"Did she just smile at us?"

"Did boss just tell us not to work too hard?"

"Is this really our boss Charmaine Dumont?"

"Oh yes don"t let me forget. If you ever see Robert Dumont enter these premises again, throw him out, I don"t care if you have to involve the authorities, but he is restricted from here from this moment on." Without another word not realizing the dumbstruck look on their faces, Chang started to head out the door while clutching a few manilla folders.

"Tata now, take care everybody!" Smiling while waving Justin left with just about everyone of her female and a few male subordinates swooning.

Feeling delighted with her insipient revenge plans Chang left only to see the object of her revenge standing outside waiting for her as he smoked a cigarette.